Polish Films on the Museum of the Moving Image's Big Screen

It’s the silver anniversary of the first free parliamentary elections in Poland, and the Museum of the Moving Image is celebrating with 13 films from the Eastern European country. Over 11 days, the Kaufman Arts District venue will screen seven features and six documentaries that were created between 1977 and 1990, the tumultuous time when communism begrudgingly gave way to the Solidarity movement. Some of the scheduled flicks were banned in their home country due to their negative portrayals of government. Interrogation, which is set during the height of Stalin’s power in the 1950s, depicts the imprisonment and torture of a Polish actress who refuses to denounce a friend. The Mother of Kings follows a widow and mother of four from the 1930s through the Stalinist era. Escape from the Liberty Cinema combines fantasy with political satire as actors step out of the screen to protest censorship. 

Details: Ways to Freedom: Polish Film and the Rise of Democracy, Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Kaufman Arts District, click here for the full program.

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